The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-23

! b,Sl uprising ana river OF nlGnu IN
the streets.
| There is one other very damaging
assertion and it is a. true at The south
| as at IKE north, and il ia this! IS
! nigh mental culture increases our
sensioiIity and set-esteem II also
| increases our ability to accumulate
wealth by questionable means and to
escape the consequences OF criminal
acts. only a small portion Of the
iniquity i'll high places finds punish
ment. II is mainly the poor and
| .friendless who fill the prisons
"The conclusion of thesmatter,o
says Mr.. iStetson, IS that intellect
ual culture without moral education
rather increases The ability to escape
the consequences Of crimlna! acts,
but does not prevent their commit
ment. Prof. t>ewail says the effect
Of increased intelligence without ac-
| c0mpapying ,mor&i principles is ei-
theI to invent neW forms OF vice OF
to cover up those crimes which the
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In all our public schools good NOR
ala are :, some extent epioiuea hp,
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Obedience to raFeats ii hot taNgn''
nor is the 0hserVaurg Of the ten com
Mandlnents. The jgties that appeg-
tain to citizenship honesty in trade
truth. Industry, respect for the Sab
nath and for the olurcL-~are not H.
rluded in any school curriculum, ,ano
vet those 'hings are the very fopnda
ion Of society and GOOD governments
aud OF far more inIp0rtauce than trig,
pnometry or Greek Or rhetoric. Ifth'
children were taaght all these a
home there would be less neces4it,
for teaching them at school, but they
| are not. How many parents teacl
themo The heathen Chinee teache
| his children obedience and honest
dealing, END their laws enforce thes
| virtues vigorously; but ours do not
| On the cOntrary there are, perhaps
rs many parents afraid of their chill
| Iren Us chi,dyen afraid of their pa
| rents. How many fathers are there
who, instead Of teaebing their boys
honesty and trqtl,, set them an eX-
antpie of 0veFfparhing and dissemb-
| ling in trade Where are the preach
ers who preach these virtues vigor-
ousy and systematically? But even
if they did bow many OF the children
are ,tiere To hear?
In all the public schools of Gernl0-
| nv and Prussia religion and morals
stand first in the curriculum, and IL
the latter couatry no teacher is quail
fled until he has been Instructed in
religion and morals for three years in
a seminary established for that pur-
nose. But instruction iu good NOR
Ais and religion is not all. They ar
reouirrd to do worll-manual work OF
some kind. The mind and the body
aye trained together,
In treating Of this, Mr.. Stetsou
saws iha, tLe state commissioners
,tiirm that the great advantage ol
uri-on life to voUthful convicts is the
,eu,Iiremellt Of The habit of industrl-
ous labor. What Il commentary j.
his unon tbp educational system that
n how has to be sent to prison to learn
y trada,
Nnv T do not know that our system
dittnrs materially from theirs. but lc,
us take warning in time and fortifv.
Their ratio of illiteracy is 3 to 100,
ours il d lo 100, 1t was that in 1850.
7 do NOT think it is more than 20 now.
We wish io lessen it until there is not
, rational child in the state over ten
years Tint cannot read. This is our
autv hut LET ms he careful that crime
j"ess s not increase with culture. Itis
no,' ~, nav 'u CoIuneI Towers, our ell
nx tm ana yvaII informed commission-
or ROT Of prisons, tells me that crime is
&, y, IL r. Gin,ini.hino if tbo number
af,u'i az nnnvicts now being sent ND from
", orr u"" nanrt. 'r, s;onifv nnyIhiny, For the
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